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Technical Development Corporation

Technical Development Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,467,476 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($3,729,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$8.5M
Net assets
$351k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Technical Development Corporation does

Mission

Technical Development Corporation is a nonprofit consulting and research group dedicated to providing the nonprofit sector with the business and management skills critical to operating effectively. TDC works with organizations foundations and public agencies sector across the nonprofit sector.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Management Consulting Services. TDC creates strategic business plans that help organizations develop sophisticated strategies that align a deep understanding of market dynamics with clear realistic plans for long-term financial sustainability. TDC periodically conducts research studies on major trends in the nonprofit sector. TDC also offers other programs and organizational evaluations board development and training and community needs assessments. TDC assists with the redistribution of grant funds to registered charities and provides services related to the redistribution. In 2024 TDC worked with 40 clients.

    $2,596,635 spent$2,356,158 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,596,635.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 138 ($3.9M) Expenses 102 ($3.2M) Net assets 137 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 109 ($3.1M) Expenses 103 ($3.2M) Net assets 130 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 160 ($4.5M) Expenses 124 ($3.9M) Net assets 162 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 164 ($4.6M) Expenses 89 ($2.8M) Net assets 256 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 70 ($2.0M) Expenses 115 ($3.6M) Net assets 173 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 83 ($2.3M) Expenses 124 ($3.9M) Net assets 95 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 60 ($1.7M) Expenses 102 ($3.2M) Net assets 18 ($351k)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (102)Net assets (18)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $6.3M (+74%).

$2.7M
$3.7M
$3.6M
$3.6M
$6.3M
$5.1M
$4.0M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 15% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of Technical Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$309k
’17
$717k
’18
−$136k
’19
$627k
’20
$1.8M
’21
−$1.6M
’22
−$1.5M
’23
−$1.5M
’24
1.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Hiram Samel

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed811111111111211
Joined·+4+0+0+1+2+2+1
No longer listed·1001212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $92k → $982k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Technical Development Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Technical Development Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

57% of Technical Development Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

90% of Technical Development Corporation's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MI
MA
PA
AZ
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Technical Development Corporation's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−89% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding Technical Development Corporation receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.

State$11k
17
20
Top programs
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$11k
  • (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$300

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

41%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Technical Development Corporation?
Technical Development Corporation (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,467,476 to it, the largest being The Klarman Family Foundation ($3,729,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Technical Development Corporation have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $8,467,476 in grants to Technical Development Corporation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Technical Development Corporation?
The Klarman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,729,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Technical Development Corporation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing